Tidbit about Krum

[pigwidgeon37 at yahoo.it]

No: HPFGUIDX 22428

I hope that I'm not digging up dead bodies, but so far I've only 
heard about the similarity between "Krum" and german "krumm"= 
crooked. So, here's some more (probably violating copyright but who 
cares- I don't tell you where I took it from):

"With the defeat of the Avars by Charlemagne in 805, Krum was able to 
extend greatly the power of the Pannonian Bulgars. His early 
offensives against the Byzantines were repulsed, and in the spring of 
811 his own capital at Pliska was destroyed. On July 26, 811, 
however, his army crushed the Byzantines, killed the emperor 
Nicephorus I, and opened the way for further victories. Krum besieged 
Constantinople (Istanbul) in 813 and devastated the surrounding 
countryside but died during a second siege of the imperial capital 
the next year."

Susanna